Each person named received a brief tribute from another boldfaced name. Stone, who won the Oscar this year for "La La Land," was saluted by last year's best actress Oscar winner, Brie Larson.

"What I really admire about Emma the person — as well as Emma the actor — is that she is never afraid to show us the most difficult thing you can show the world: yourself," Larson wrote. "What that entails is not always pretty. But with Emma, it is real, and it is beautiful."

The rapper Common revealed that he had once called Chance the Rapper to encourage him to pursue his dream.

"Years ago, my grandmother asked me to call her friend's grandson," Common wrote in his tribute to Chance. "'I want you to give him some words of encouragement,' she said. 'He wants to be a rapper.' She gave me his number, and I left him a message. I told him to keep following his dreams. Then I forgot all about it."

Years later, after Chance had made it big, the two met, and Chance reminded Common, "You won't remember this ... but you called me when I was a kid."

"I'm glad Chance followed his dreams," Common wrote about Chance, who won the Grammy for best new artist earlier this year. "I hope he always does."

Lin-Miranda Manuel wrote about how actor Riz Ahmed seems to be everywhere these days — "Rogue One," "The Hamilton Mixtape" and HBO's "The Night Of."

"To know him is to be inspired, engaged and ready to create alongside him," Manuel wrote in a tribute. "The year 2016 was when all the seeds he planted bore glorious fruit, and here's the best part: He's just getting started."